“Since”
Emirati poet Amal Al Shamsi’s poem explores nostalgia, longing, and a mother-daughter relationship
Soliloquies
Swiveling between memories in Sharjah, Dubai and Cairo, Noor Tannir’s vulnerable personal essay grapples with themes of anxiety, grief, and family illness
Color IV
Part of a larger experimental film documentary, Color IV turns a darkly nostalgic eye on the angst, violence, mundaneness, and loneliness of adolescence
The Last Summer
Glimpse into joyful summer days and a fading childhood through Maddie Wilkins’s nostalgic photo series
Edge of a Non-Dream
These photos interrogate our relationships with inanimate objects of play as they are passed down or gifted from mother to child
Space/Time
As an Iranian female artist based in Arkansas, Ziba Rajabi’s work revolves around the desire to reconcile her relationship with two distinctive spaces: her homeland, Tehran, and place of residence, Arkansas.
AC
“I believe in the expansion of color in the sky as the sun travels” – a quiet, nostalgic poem by Grace Nightingale.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
Amanda Malamut questions common holiday traditions.
A Hammock and Me and Time
Experimental poetry by Arthur De Oliveira.
fourth wall
“home is old / selves trapped / in the flaking paint / of the fourth wall” - Vamika Sinha presents nostalgia for the childhood home in this new poem.
Nostalgia
When childhood trauma returns in a single mundane moment, unspiralling into a poem.
On belonging
Dayin Wijaya traces his journey from Holland to Abu Dhabi.
eldorado cinema
Vamika Sinha writes from outside one of Abu Dhabi’s now-shut landmarks: Eldorado Cinema.
Baguettes
How do you say chopsticks in French? Poetry from Paris’ Chinatown by Tzy Jiun Tan